. Fig. 22.—CHESAPEAKE BAT DOG. CHESAPEAKE BAT DOG. The earliest accounts that we have of the above mentioned dog date back to the year 1807, when the ship "Canton," of Balti- more, fell in at sea with an English brig in a sinking condition, bound from Newfoundland to England. The crew were rescued and taken aboard of the " Canton," also two Newfoundland pups, a dog and bitch The English crew were landed at Norfolk, and the two pups purchased from the English captain for a guinea apiece, and taken to Baltimore. The dog pup, called " Sailor,"

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